Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

by Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque I give and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ my person and my life, my deeds, pains and sufferings, not to use any part of my being except to love, honour and glorify Him. It is my irrevocable will to be all His and to do everything for His love, renouncing with all my heart all that could displease Him. I therefore take You, O Sacred Heart, as the sole object of my love, the protector of my life, the assurance of my salvation, the remedy for my inconstancy, the repairer of all the defects of my life and my refuge at the hour of my death. Be therefore, O Heart of Kindness, my justification to God the Father and turn away from me the chastisements of His righteous wrath. O Heart of Love, I put all my trust in You, for I fear all things from my weakness, but I hope all things from Your goodness. Consume in me, therefore, all that may displease You or resist You, and may Your pure love be imprinted so much in my heart that I can never forget You, nor be separated from You. I beseech You, by all Your goodness, that my name be written in You, since I want my happiness to consist entirely in living and dying as Your slave. Amen.

Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

by Mother Mary of the Divine Heart My most loving Jesus, I consecrate myself today, once again and without reserve, to Your divine Heart. I consecrate to You my body with all its senses, my soul with all its faculties, and my whole being. I consecrate to You all my thoughts, my words and my works, all my sufferings and my sorrows, all my hopes, my consolations and my joys, and above all I consecrate to You my poor heart, so that it may love only You and be consumed as a victim in the flames of Your love. Accept, O Jesus, my most loving Spouse, the desire I have to console Your divine Heart and to belong to You forever. Take possession of me, so that from now on, I have no other freedom than that of loving You, nor any other life than that of suffering and dying for You. I place in You all my trust, a trust without limits, and I hope from Your infinite mercy the forgiveness of my sins. I place in Your hands all my worries, especially that of my eternal salvation. I promise to love and honor You until the last moment of my life, and to propagate, as far as I can, the cult of Your Sacred Heart. Dispose of me, O my Jesus, according to Your good pleasure; I want no other reward than Your greater glory and Your holy love. Grant me the grace to find my dwelling in Your divine Heart; it is there that I wish to spend all the days of my life, that I wish to breathe my last. Establish also in my heart Your dwelling and the place of Your rest, so that we may remain intimately united, until one day I may praise You, love You and possess You for all eternity, and sing forever of the infinite mercies of Your Sacred Heart. Amen.

To the Sacred Heart of Jesus

by Saint Gertrude Hail, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, living and quickening source of eternal life, infinite treasury of the Divinity, burning furnace of divine Love!    Thou art my refuge and my sanctuary, O my amiable Saviour!    O my divine Saviour! consume my heart with that burning fire with which Thine is ever inflamed; pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Thy love, and let my heart be so united with Thine that our wills may be one, and mine in all things conform to Thine.    May Thine be the standard and rule of my desires and of my actions.    Amen.

Honorable Tribute to the Heart of Jesus

Most adorable and most lovable Jesus, always filled with love for us, always touched by our miseries, always urged by the desire to share with us Your treasures and to give You Yourself all to us; Jesus, my Saviour and my God, who, through the excess of the most ardent and prodigious of all loves, placed Yourself in the state of victim in the adorable Eucharist, where You offer Yourself for us as a sacrifice a million times every day, what must be Your feelings in this state, finding for all this, in the hearts of most men, only harshness, forgetfulness, ingratitude and contempt? Was it not enough, O my Saviour, to have taken the path that was hardest for You to save us, even though You could show us excessive love at much less cost? Wasn’t it enough to abandon Yourself for once to this cruel agony, and to the mortal discomfort caused by the horrible image of our sins, with which You were burdened? Why still want to expose Yourself every day to all the indignities of which the blackest malice of men and demons was capable? Ah, my God and my all-loving Redeemer, what were the feelings of Your Sacred Heart at the sight of all these ingratitudes and sins? What was the bitterness into which so many sacrileges and so many outrages plunged Your Heart? Moved by extreme regret for all these indignities, here I am prostrated and annihilated before You to make amends to You, in the eyes of heaven and earth, for all the irreverence and outrages You have received on our altars, since the institution of this adorable Sacrament. It is with a heart humbled and broken with pain that I ask You a thousand and one pardons for all these indignities. What can I do, O my God, to water with my tears and wash with my blood all the places where Your Sacred Heart has been horribly outraged, and where the marks of Your divine love have been received with such strange contempt? May I not, by some new kind of homage, humiliation and annihilation, make reparation for so many sacrileges and profanations! May I not, for a moment, be the Master of the hearts of all men, to make reparation in some way, by the sacrifice I would make to You, for the forgetfulness and insensitivity of all those who have not wanted to know You, or who, having known You, have loved You so little! But, O my lovable Savior, what covers me with even more confusion, what must make me groan even more, is that I myself was one of these ungrateful people. My God, who sees the depths of my heart, You know the pain I feel at my ungratefulness, and the regret I have at seeing You treated so unjustly; You know the willingness I have to suffer everything and do everything to make amends. So here I am, Lord, broken-hearted, humiliated, prostrate, ready to receive from Your hand whatever You please to demand of me in reparation for so many outrages. Strike, Lord, strike, I will bless and kiss a hundred times the hand that will bring such just punishment upon me. How could I not be a suitable victim to make reparation for so many insults! How could I not sprinkle with my blood all the places where Your sacred Body has been dragged along the ground and trampled underfoot! Too happy if I could, by all possible torments, make reparation for so many outrages, so much contempt and so much impiety! If I do not deserve this grace, at least accept the true desire I have for it. Receive, Eternal Father, this amends I make to You, in union with that which this Sacred Heart made to You on Calvary, and which Mary herself made to You at the foot of the cross of Her Son, and in view of the prayer which Her Sacred Heart makes to You, forgive me for so many iniquities and so many irreverences committed, and make effective, by Your grace, the will I have and the resolution I make to forget nothing in order to love ardently and to honor, in every possible way, my Sovereign, my Savior and my Judge, whom I believe to be truly present in the adorable Eucharist. I intend to prove henceforth, by the reverence with which I will be in His presence, and by my assiduity in

To ask for the Love of the Heart of Jesus

O Heart ablaze with love, living sanctuary of the Divinity!… What can I do to compensate You for the humiliation to which the holy Eucharist reduces You?… I love You, O Heart all burning with love for God and for me! I unite myself to all Your movements, to Your holy dispositions; and I ask You the grace to live from Your life and to burn from Your fires. I rejoice to see You loved and glorified in Heaven and I implore the grace to take part in Your sorrows. I would gladly suffer rather than displease You and I would gladly die to prevent a single mortal sin. Grant that my soul may feel Your divine impulse, and bring it to the renunciation of every human thing capable of separating me from You and altering my love for You. O Divine Heart, my dearest desire is to lose myself in You, to live only of You, in You, and for love of You. Apply myself to dwell in spirit at Your feet, like the burning lamp that is consumed before the Blessed Sacrament. May my heart, like that lamp, no longer lose Your presence. May Your will be the light of my heart, and Your love the flame that consumes it in time and for eternity. Amen.

To the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

for the Conversion of sinners Sacred Heart of Jesus! who burns with such ardent love for men, and who is so little loved by them, how can I, through my fervor, console You for the ingratitude of all these sinful Christians! Will Your Heart, always tender and compassionate, always be broken with pain at the sight of the evils Your children bring upon themselves by their disorders and crimes? I know, O my Saviour! You love to be implored for sinners, because it was for them that You abased Yourself and resigned Yourself to all the humiliations of Your life and to the torments of Your Passion, because You want them to be converted and to live. However guilty I may be, I confidently approach the throne of Your mercies, firmly hoping that You will not reject my prayers for these unfortunate souls. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have pity on sinners, touch their hardened hearts, open their eyes blinded by their passions, make them see the abyss into which they are plunging. Grace, grace, O my God! suspend Your wrath. Mercy, Lord, mercy! Are not sinners Your children? O my God, do not abandon them, and since the blood of Your Son has been shed for them, let it not be in vain. Receive, in expiation for their crimes, the sufferings of Jesus, the prayers, the good works, the communions of so many fervent Christians, to which I unite myself with all the power of my soul. I want to live only to love You, happy if I could die of love for You, and compensate You for the coldness of so many Christians, who do not love You, because they do not know You. O Immaculate Heart of Mary! Heart of this august Virgin whom the Church rightly calls the Refuge and Advocate of sinners, join Your supplications to my feeble prayers to do holy violence to the Heart of Jesus. O Mary! I place my requests in Your Heart, deign to present them to the sovereign Judge, to Him whom You bore in Your virginal womb, to Him whose sublime virtues You imitated so well, to Him whom You loved so much, and I am at peace in the sweet hope that they will be granted. Amen.